Re: [CentOS] Amazon EC2 - building a minimal centOS ebs bootable image

Am 29.01.2011 16:32, schrieb Sanjay Arora:

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Rainer Trauttr.ml@gmx.de wrote:

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To get an image into the cloud I did:

• format a 10GiB file with ext3
• install a minimal centos to it (yum with --installroot option)
• put this into S3 as an AMI
• start an instance of it
• clone this to an EBS file with rsync
• make a snapshot of this EBS
• convert this snapshot to an EBS AMI
• use your EBS instances...

Looking exactly for something like this...but more detailed. I have slow dsl...so I would rather use somebody else's centos image to build my own.

Have found many howtos but all seem to be for just for copying some other ami and then reconfiguring it, or else they are too technical for me to dive into.

For building the image: http://bodgitandscarper.co.uk/category/amazon-ec2/

But as I said I had to use another mkinitrd cmd.

The image will be compressed once you upload it, mine was around 300mb.

Rainer